“It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.”

This observation from David Bailey, the legendary British fashion photographer, could honestly apply to dozens of F/F lists full of Fotolog photographers, some professionals, but most of them astounding amateurs. One of the artists I think of immediately when reading that quotation is location_iceburg. Locaburg is Mark Alor Powell, a longtime Fotologger and natural shooter, whose best work can make you question your own efforts while simultaneously inspiring you to new heights.
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Posted By along on November 17, 2006 in Profile

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Sam’s Eye, Homeless, Miami

Usually social activists see the injustice first, then pick up the camera to fight it. For Gary Clark’s Essential Humanity Project the photographs came first; activism followed. An award-winning artist and teacher for more than 30 years, Clark was not “particularly political” when he began his project—an extended series of portraits of street people in New York City and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He had been curious about homeless people ever since he first saw them as a child driving through New York’s Bowery with his father. But it wasn’t until he bought his first digital camera five years ago that he decided to find out more about their lives. He wanted to make portraits. As soon as he started, he found out there was a lot more to this than just taking pictures.

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Posted By colorstalker on November 13, 2006 in Profile

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